Ms. Schultze, you head the Department for Digital Society and Geoinformation at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Digital Affairs of the State of Saxony-Anhalt and serve as the Deputy Chair of AdV. Could you summarize and prioritize the major challenges facing official geoinformation administrations in three short sentences for our readers?
Nationally standardized geospatial base data play a key role in addressing challenges such as security, crises, climate and disaster protection, and digital transformation. Technological innovation cycles are becoming ever shorter, and the demand is for geospatial data that is simple, fast, digital, free, and permanently available. At the same time, there is an acute shortage of skilled professionals, and resources are limited.
How are administrations responding to these challenges?
Cooperation within AdV is essential. Internal optimizations within individual states have been exhausted, meaning further efficiency gains can only be achieved through collaboration. Central (virtual) production hubs will play a major role in the future. AdV is actively addressing technological, economic, societal, and political developments to leverage the potential of geospatial base data as a public infrastructure service and a strategic pillar of digitalization, while also integrating innovations into its own processes.
INTERGEO has always been a platform for networking and exchange. Were you able to recognize, discuss, and perhaps even further develop future topics, particularly with regard to your core focus on digitalization?
INTERGEO once again provided an excellent opportunity for communication and networking. AdV actively contributed and benefited from the event—in particular, discussions on the further development of BIM were agreed upon.
Ms. Schultze, thank you for your time.
